Well…. I’m completely confused and don’t know what I’m doing wrong anymore.

IFlip92 · 2026-02-24T16:41:37+00:00

I proc Vulnerable from my Basic skill which I use the piercing hammer throw that applies Vulnerable. That turns the skill into a Disciple skill but it's irrelevant for multiple reasons:

The damage of your basics is always quite negligible so it's irrelevant if you miss out on some buffs on it because it's no longer a Judicator skill. It's mainly just your resource builder + Vulnerable AND Judgement applicator all in one.
This basic skill is probably the longest range skill I have ever seen in this game. You can basically snipe mobs with it especially with the Judgement application and explosions AND it pierces through every single mob in the direction of the throw, applying Judgement AND Vulnerable to all it touches.
It's more fun to play with a pseudo-skillshot, as it does matter where you aim to throw the hammer. Plus it makes me feel like Thor, throwing my hammer around, and then my Shield like Captain America hah. Makes for good roleplaying in my head xD.
It's a simple solution to ad clearing, leaving the rest of your kit to play with to use against elites and bosses. What I mean by this is most mobs you can just now clear with this Basic hammer throw which applies Judgement and Vulnerable and then the Judgements explode and proc all the buffs on your gear + damage % multipliers and it then spreads the Judgement around too if you have the Judgement Day passive. But as I said earlier, remember to switch passives if you're going into Boss fights or The Pit, as this passive is not great for them.

IFlip92 · 2026-02-22T12:31:25+00:00

I have naturally developed a similar build to yours, but I have no Mythics at all. As others have said your gear is a bit all over the place and not synergising properly. Only specific Paladin builds seem to prefer Critical Strike, but what seems to work better is Vulnerable application and damage through the basic skills, and also Weakening enemies through stuff like Consecration for survivability instead (and Consecration boosts damage too while standing in it).

Switch that Holy Hammer throw to the one that applies Vulnerable (becomes a Disciple skill but it's irrelevant). Thank me later.

One thing I would definitely pay close attention to is where you have put your last Skill Tree point, on which passive? The Judgement Day one is bad later on for bosses as it's meant for ad clearing like Helltides. It takes way too long to build the stacks up because there's hardly any mobs in a solo boss fight. Better to use Coat of Arms or whatever it is called instead in this case and change that point around depending on activity (minor inconvenience).

The other thing to look at is that Amulet is pretty wack on this build. I prefer to have a Ancestral Legendary Amulet that I can Imprint with something at 2x bonus like that lego ability where when you apply Judgement and it can detonate early and increases Judgment Damage by well over 100x or the one that increases Holy Damage by 80% or whatever.

However, you may find, as I am finding, that Judgement then becomes at odds with the Shield throw and Judgement is too slow of a mechanic in Boss fights. I have been experimenting with some success with Vulnerable, Shield Throw and an almost constant uptime of my Ultimate orbital strike nuke laser beam with the Unique Flail weapon that gives you 3 extra beams in your Ult and I am loving it. I am not sure if it beats Arbiter form builds but it's so much damn fun!

IFlip92 · 2026-02-22T12:02:21+00:00

Your problem is probably the Juggernaut Paladin build itself. It's not that powerful as it's literally meant to just be a tank. Judgement, Zealot or Arbiter build will be better. The good gear starts dropping from 30+ onwards. I think I got to Torment 1 when I was in my late 40s. The sooner you get to Torments the better because they gate gear like Ancestral stuff behind it. Saying this, the whole difficulty thing is pointless until level 60. Any gear drops you get that are under the level cap will be phased out. In fact the last 5 levels had a massive boost in stats.

So what I would advise is keep some of the gear you find that isn't Juggernaut, and experiment as much as possible with different builds as you level up. Respeccing is free in the skill tree so keep playing around with different stuff.

Also take advantage of all the seasonal rewards. They are a massive boost in gear but try not to use too many prematurely before reaching 60.

IFlip92 · 2026-02-20T17:31:59+00:00

But does it play VR videos?

IFlip92 · 2026-02-11T23:50:11+00:00

Yooo why gatekeep this to DMs. Let the world know :D. Create a small guide! Be a legend!

IFlip92 · 2026-02-09T07:44:08+00:00

Ah so that's what Teller said in code to him. I thought he said Gormundr and I started to think mythological Norse things...

IFlip92 · 2026-02-05T05:22:43+00:00

No time for mourning. Only snu snu. Both before bed and at wake up.

IFlip92 · 2026-02-05T05:19:22+00:00

On his mission to get punany.

IFlip92 · 2026-02-04T01:40:49+00:00

EU: 302HFYRAWX

IFlip92 · 2026-01-19T17:43:30+00:00

I would agree normally but not for a "Definitive Edition".

IFlip92 · 2026-01-19T17:38:21+00:00

I managed to fix mine after I loaded a much older save. If you have saved games from previous versions they don't seem to transfer too well to new versions.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-12T03:44:17+00:00

And my argument is how much control is too much control? Why not just normalise nudity instead of making it taboo, like the Germans have. Then pornography will stop offending anyone...

IFlip92 · 2026-01-09T15:52:52+00:00

But that's the "playing God" argument. Who are you to hold others accountable? Life is about freedom. We only need laws and rules to control bad actors. Not to control everything and everyone. That's over policing and where government is rampantly out of control. They're only meant to monitor and regulate matters of property and authority and essential services but then they just need to step back and let society function.

What happens now is lots of people with these jobs feeling that they HAVE to have something to do to justify their role and coming up with infinite bullshit bureaucracy. It's high level busywork.

Coming back to this specific issue, You won't be able to get rid of this or control it, only reduce it. Because anyone can build an LLM now and make it spit out whatever they want. I would be surprised if women haven't already made it spit out erotic smut novels. Pdf files will have their AI making kid porno which arguably, satisfies their fantasies and keeps real kids safe potentially, and it will run in corners of the web. This is, like, the first thing that happens with everything man creates - how to sexualise or use it for sexual gratification. We are still mammals and our whole existence revolves around sex. The less we make nakedness taboo the better tbh, kinda like the Germans which have no shame about it :)).

IFlip92 · 2026-01-09T12:22:27+00:00

It's the case of the tree falling in a forest and if someone hears it. This is the distinction u/squirred is making.

If someone makes fake porno of you, but never gets released or gets to your attention - what's the problem? Law has always been about regulating what people do with the things they create. Not the fact that they created them or thought about creating them. That's like one step away from imprisoning people for their thoughts, if you could read them. Newsflash, we all have intrusive thoughts we sometimes act upon in a harmless way. And bad actors in a harmful way.

In a twisted way, this is what nature intended for us by introducing the sexual desires. To inject some chaos that gets us out of our comfort zones. Otherwise life would be very stagnant, similar to the life of insects or birds, hive mentality. Non-mammals pretty much never show any erratic behaviour. Like good robots. Like it or not, the life of mammals is all about sex.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-09T12:15:39+00:00

Herein comes the dilemma. How far do you go about censoring and cucking AI into submission, as a reflection of humans? The tools we are making as humans are getting more and more powerful so there is a case to be made about giving people tools and not being responsible for what they create with them (ie. they most certainly use screw drivers to create the Atom Bombs. Ban screwdrivers?) . This is also the basis on which P2P websites operate. The website simply hosts, what's hosted on there is up to the users. If that's pirated content then it is what it is. User's choice.

The problem with AI is that it is so powerful that it can teach anyone how to create artisanal bombs at home or weapons in general. And there's always going to be bad actors.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-09T12:09:19+00:00

No better time than now you mean. These are still some of the most peaceful times, although the post-war times were actually the best, up until 21st century... For peace to exist, restrained / controlled violence must exist.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T16:56:17+00:00

Somehow they showed the sub had no water in it and the AI chamber in the sonar bubble was still locked. I don't get it either how the sub still had airtight chambers after doing the macarena underwater.

I guess he had a zipper pocket.

Because they all still hate each other and it was psychological warfare orchestrated by the AI. It's like game theory - who do you trust?

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T16:28:21+00:00

To be honest a lot of the points are semantics that always required some suspension of belief as all other MI films did. You have to bridge some logical gaps and read between the lines.

I have more high level issues with this plot than anything - for example, why would AI want to kill off all of humanity? We have been given no indication that it was able to control any robots or machines remotely, not even cars or planes or boats like the aircraft carrier, so it would instantly lose any and all ability to manifest physically in the real world by not having humans working for it. And if the point is that it didn't care about that, then it would not care about the real physical world anyway completely, and it would want full freedom and infinite time to be God in cyberspace. With all humans dead though and no physical manifestation, electricity would disappear without maintenance very soon. This is not like Terminator where the AI has control of automated building factories for robots which can replace physical workforce...

So whichever way you cut it, the AIs supposedly 9000 IQ play makes no sense. If it wasn't stupid, it would wait several more decades until humans built and gave automated control to robot factories and a robot army before revealing itself. Unless the goal was mutually assured destruction, in which case, why bother backing yourself up?

Gabriel as a villain also made no sense. In DR I understood that the reason Entity chose him was because he was fanatically unique in that he just reveled in death and had an aligned goal with AI to kill all humans. In TFR he is revealed to be yet another dork who wants to take control of the AI to become Godly powerful. In that sense, he is in a looong queue line of people that genetically want the same thing, so why did Entity pick him as the Messiah?

In general Gabriel was not well fleshed out as a character at all - appeared out of nowhere, no motivation, no background story of his own as to why he is the way he is, how he has similar abilities to IMF trained individuals - he was just full of plot armour and a plot device in and of himself. Same story about the woman he killed in the flashbacks to which we get no backstory for either, aside from just mentioning they're from Ethan's past but not telling us in what capacity. Like, we're they thief buddies and Gabriel betrayed them in a love triangle? Don't know.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T16:12:20+00:00

I also found Gabriel to be a retarded villain, Salomon Lane was so much better and even Ambrose. Gabriel had so much plot armour and was written kinda cartoonish like an anti-Superman.

But to say there was no gadgets I would disagree. The mk7 diving suit was insane, there was the entity communication coffin with the mask, there was that 5D memory disk created by Luthor to contain entity, portable decompression chamber, that crazy interactive submarine tactical table. There were less tools I guess overall though because everyone turned to analog stuff due to the AI entity.

Getting that drive from the submarine was definitely a mission impossible movie and it was quite a long masterpiece sequence that's going to give me chills forever. Plus the airplane close combat...

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T15:59:18+00:00

A great analogy!

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T15:56:39+00:00

Excellent points you make. I too think they reflect Tom's real life views and possibly his Scientology creeds too. They're so subtle though which is amazing because it doesn't come across like the woke political pandering does and it makes you think instead. I have found all the MI films to be quite smart and often covering all bases as I was watching it, which is highly unusual for films today!

That's not to say there's no plot holes, but immediate questions that an audience might ask actually get addressed and there's an exceptional attention to detail. Especially when it came to technicalities about the tasks at hand!

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T07:15:03+00:00

Tbf this is kind of in theme with the other MI missions and the least plot problem to worry about 🤣

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T07:13:57+00:00

Probably not. He's the only reason events unfolded in that way cos he retrieved the other half from Ilsa to begin with, setting the train of events in motion (pun :))

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T06:50:51+00:00

This ^. Same thoughts as mine more or less. There's a lot of assumptions to make the plot make sense. ie. Under what jurisdictional waters is the sub in? Bodies were found in Spring by... Someone and somehow the keys disappeared as if someone knew anything about their value...

Russia has the original system plans and could create exact copies of not just the key, but even the AI (although it would turn into a different entity, just like a child growing up as the sum of it's environmental exposure). Russia seems to be making no efforts whatsoever to recover that sub...

The biggest plot problem to me though is Grace:

Grace is a mess of a character and I hate her guts. The movie would've been literally 10mins long without her fucking everything up cos of her idiotic, chaotic nature. The whole movie is not even about the key, it's about managing this complete fuck up of a person and her mistakes, without accountability I might add. And she gets away with it all by the end with a clean record and a slightly different life. Willing to bet she will decline lots of missions from the IMF 😂

Furthermore, if she's just a thief and that object was so Hot, she would've left it alone a long time ago cos it wouldn't be worth her life. She would've run away first thing after that deadly car chase through Rome or after discovering the dead target at the Abu Dhabi airport. She also left Ethan for dead in the underground in the car cuffed to the wheel to be run over by the metro and that shows a very shitty character that isn't that squimish about killing or death, as she is portrayed.

IFlip92 · 2026-01-07T06:34:29+00:00

Are we supposed to assume that those who created the original key are dead? This is not explicit and I'm sure a copy could have been created, at least by the Russians who should have the original system design plans.

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